3:16 PM,
Jul. 20, 2013

FILE - Brian Scott Hartman is led into the Randolph County Courthouse March 1, 2010.

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| By Douglas Walker
dwalker@muncie.gannett.com

After waging, and eventually winning, a yearslong legal battle to have his alleged confession declared inadmissible, Brian "Scott" Hartman now wants all charges stemming from the February 2010 deaths of his parents dismissed.

Hartman, now 36, is charged with murder in the shotgun slaying of his 53-year-old father, also named Brian Hartman, in the family's southwestern Randolph County home on Feb. 12, 2010.

He is also charged with assisting suicide in the death, the same day, of his 52-year-old mother, Cheri. Authorities allege the defendant gave his mother, who had been seriously ill, a ...